• Catherine Mohr
• Director of Medical Research, Intuitive Surgical

• Speaking at TED2009
• February 2009
• Long Beach, CA

Surgery's past, present and robotic future: Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands. Fascinating -- but not for the squeamish.